Henry CONEY Gent. "the Immigrant"

ABT 1600 - ____

ID Number: I51503

Notes

Biographies of monarchs & other royalty from those little known
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The Early British Kings of what is now Northern England, descend
from one of two dynasties commonly known as the Gwyr-y-Gogledd,
a Welsh phrase meaning the "Men of the North". They were a
P-Celtic people, like the Cymri, who retained their independence
from Saxon oppression for a number of centuries, in the relative
remote Northern regions of Britain.

Welsh tradition holds that they all had a common ancestor in Old
King Cole of nursery rhyme fame. He appears in ancient records
as Coel Hen (the Old) and his name seems to ultimately derive
from the Roman, Coellius. This fits in well with the time period
in which it has been calculated that he lived: right at the end
of the Roman administration (very late 4th century).

Considering the regions over which Coel's supposed descendants
ruled, his own sphere of influence must have covered a vast area
from Hadrian's Wall to the Southern Pennines. In fact, the exact
area that would have been governed at this time by the Dux
Britanniarum, a Roman official in charge of the military defence
of Northern Britain. With his headquarters at York, he would
have been in an ideal position to extend some semblance of
Roman-type authority into the 5th century, long after the army
and administration had returned to Italy.

Traditional Celtic law insists upon the division of land amongst
sons upon the death of the landowner and this situation can
certainly be traced amongst the kingdoms which emerged from
Coel's domain. However, whether these men were really sons and
grandsons of this powerful dux or merely early founders,
attached to the great man by later generations is unknown.

According to tradition and early records, the North thus split
into many different kingdoms. Ebrauc or British York was centred
on that city. Bryneich became the later Saxon kingdom of
Bernicia. There were little known kingdoms in the Pennines and
the oft-quoted Elmet, around Leeds, whose name is retained today
in places like Sherburn-in-Elmet. Others moved further south to
establish Calchfynedd. Most powerful was perhaps the kingdom of
Rheged, later divided into North and South. Its Kings, such as
Urien and Owein, were long celebrated in Welsh poetry and, in
medieval times, found their way into the Arthurian tradition.
The area they ruled is still called Cumbria today, a name
meaning 'Land of the Welsh'.

By the mid-7th century, however, the local Germanic settlers had
completely overrun the North. Internal squabbles had weakened
the British position in the region and the relatively few Saxons
warriors were easily able to take advantage of the situation.
Eventually only Rheged was left and a dynastic marriage brought
this too into the English fold.

Coel Hen or Coel the Old is known to most of us through the
famous nursery rhyme:

Old King Cole was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he.
He called for his pipe,
And he called for his bowl,
And he called for his fiddlers, three.

He is also a familiar figure in ancient Welsh genealogies, for
most of the Celtic British monarchies claimed descent from him
in one form or another. He appears to have lived around the turn
from the 4th to the 5th century, the time when the Roman
officials returned to Italy, leaving Britain and her people to
fend for themselves. Coel's particular association with the
north of Britain has led to the suggestion that he may actually
have been the last of the Roman Duces Brittanniarum with his
headquarters at York. He certainly imposed his power over a
great swathe of the country, and can be considered the first
King in Northern Britain.

(This Coel should not be confused with the legendary Coel
Godhebog "the Magnificent", Lord of Colchester, whose daughter,
St. Helen, supposedly married the Emperor Constantius Chlorus
two centuries earlier.)

There is an old story told in the north about Coel's last
campaign. What is now Scotland was originally inhabited by the
Pictish race. It was during Coel's time that immigrant Irishmen
from the Scotti tribe began to settle the Western coast around
Argyle. Coel, fearing that the two peoples would unite against
the British, sent raiding parties across his northern border to
stir up discord between them. The plan, however, backfired for
the Picts and the Scots were not taken in. Coel merely succeeded
in pushing the two even closer together, and they began to
attack the British Kingdom of Strathclyde. Coel declared all out
war and moved north to expel the invaders. The Picts and Scots
fled to the hills ahead of Coel's army, who eventually set up
camp at what became Coylton alongside the Water of Coyle
(Ayrshire). For a long time, the British were triumphant, while
the Scots and Picts starved. Desperate for some relief, however,
the enemy advanced an all-or-nothing attack on Coel's
stronghold. Coel and his men were taken by surprise, overrun and
scattered to the winds. It is said that Coel wandered the
unknown countryside until he eventually got caught in a bog at
Coilsfield (in Tarbolton, Ayrshire) and drowned. Coel was first
buried in a mound there before being removed to the church at
Coylton. The year was about AD 420. After his death, Coel's
Northern Kingdom was divided between two of his sons, Ceneu and
Gorbanian.

"( I have a picture of Hugh K. and Margret Stark, Hugh K. is
wearing a Purple Heart on his lapel)". "Siloam Springs
cemetery, Middlebrook, Randolph Co. Arkansas. Margaret is
buried with her son Hugh J. Purl in Shilome? Cemetery about 2
miles north of Middlebrook Ark.not sure if this is correct
spelling? of Shilome? .Middlebrook is in between Doniphan
Missouri and Maynard Arkansas. I was down there this spring
vandels had done a lot of damage to the cemetery I found Hugh
J. Purl's marker but didn't find Margarets but I know she was
burried next to Hugh J.Purl his marker had been broken off."
Marshall Purl

Henry WILCOX

ABT 1640 - Mar 1685

ID Number: I82398

Notes

"Some researchers believe this Henry is a part of the Virginia
Willcocks whose original immigrant was Captain Willcox who came
to Virginia in 1620 and was a Representative in the Legislature
for Accomac Co. in 1623. Captain Willcox was from Plymouth, ENG
and came to Virginia to fight the Indians. His will was probated
June 1628 in England.
Henry married widow, Sarah Lewis. It is conjecture that she is
the mother of Samuel's wife, Mary Ann Wilcox, because we are not
sure of Mary's birthdate. The Henry that married Sarah Lewis is
also probably the same Henry that emigrated from England to
Maryland and had a plantation named Mount Hope on the Chester
River in Maryland. (C-635, 1206)
Henry wrote his will on Nov. 9, 1684 and died the following
March and names his daughter Mary in his will."